Feedback & Reports

Same conditions as yesterday on Gofynne but breezy & therefore leaves. Expected less & got it. However I didn't find the beat as user friendly. Parking okay. I walked upstream well over a mile in all, fishing
where I could,but access into the river was generally poor & actually a struggle at times, then fishing up river wondering if I would be able to get out.
A scary prospect if confronted with deep water & an overhanging bank + thick undergrowth.
Waders & carbon fibre rods cost money. A few safe access points to the river would be good & not just for
Salmon fishers of which I am one at the right time of year.
I noted that the owner (in the paperwork) wanted to keep the riverbank in its natural condition as far as
possible & I saw plenty of evidence of that ie. No concession to the fee paying fisherman & in my mind just
an excuse for doing nothing at all as far as I could see. I won't be back.
DD

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

An afternoon and evening session from 2.00 pm. River low and clear. Cloudy throughout with an hour's steady rain at first. Started with several bites and a couple of small barbel, but three or four fish lost to hook pulls or line cut on rocks. Fishing then went quiet until the last hour and a half when I had a few more fish up to 6.5 lbs. On a beat that has so many swims in a short length I probably should have explored some more water in the quiet afternoon period - but there's always next time!

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

A day of showers on the Creel but the fish fed well. A managed 10 Barbel to 8lb 12oz plus 4 Chub. Son J had 7 Barbel plus a very good Chub of 4lb 11oz. L bringing up the rear as his favoured angle had 2 Barbel and 2 Chub. Fish came to feeder tactics and of a variety of pellets and boilie baits.

19 Barbel, 8 Chub

Pleasant day with a few showers. All fish caught on pellet.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water quite low and difficult to navigate in parts. Used a mixture of dry fly and nymphs for several hours. As well as those caught lost three others around 8 Ozs. Not too many rising and did not spot many others. I anticipate it may be livelier in May or June but I found it hard work overall.
Bell inn at Skenfrith a great venue to stay or have an evening meal.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 Barbel

River was looking in good condition and slightly coloured, sadly the fishing was rather slow managed two barbel on meat cast the the far side.

2 Barbel

River low, and fish inert! Quit after two hours only.

Some float fishing with sweet corn as hook bait - no luck, nil caught. Fly fished for about an hour. No luck, nil caught. Other anglers didn't seem to doing too well either. All of us fishing on the East bank of the reservoir

The three of us fished in the first field and we all struggled to catch anything on a low and clear river which had clearly been heavily fished during the summer, we all felt that the extra rods allowed has had an effect on the fishing, we had two small barbel a chub and two eels, but still an enjoyable day. We all fished feeder tactics.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub